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...Trott stuff Byron Trott, perhaps the most successful investment banker of his generation, has helped Buffett, the Pritzkers, the Waltons, and the Mars families....
...RIP Byron Wien and his Ten Surprises. The Wells Fargo Investment Institute has five hot ideas for your portfolio this year....
...Job moves Julius Baer’s chief executive Philipp Rickenbacher is leaving the Swiss bank as it prepares to write off $700mn in loans to crisis-hit Austrian property group Signa....
...Smart reads A very Swiss scandal A $22mn alleged fraud at Julius Baer has cast a light on the opaque world of Zürich’s independent wealth advisers, the FT reports....
...Peter Davidson’s haunting book, The Last of the Light (2015), offered a marvellously imaginative study of how artists, from Caspar David Friedrich to Samuel Palmer, have made use of twilight....
...However, Byron (who lived a couple of doors along) was fiercely critical of the whole enterprise, referring to the display as “a general mart, for all the mutilated blocks of art”....
...Julius Eulberg, founder of his eponymous skincare brand Julisis, told me of a recent trip to Ojai Valley Inn in California, where he signed up for a retreat led by author and speaker Byron Katie, whose fans...
...“Funny Thing She Said” started with raga-rock changes and a malletted cymbal haze from Stöle Solberg; Julius Lind’s bass then descended sturdily through the scales to counterpoint the melody....
...Julius Caesar was captured in 75BC by pirates who extracted a ransom for his release; he later had them crucified....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...… Adam & Yves by Gladys Perint Palmer, Firefall Editions, $39.95 (out now) Journalist and fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer describes her second book as “a handwritten, tongue-in-cheek history...
...In 1942, he wrote Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, a setting of Lord Byron’s poem for baritone, piano and strings, and effectively a condemnation of Hitler....
...Mr Bowman will replace DeAnne Julius, who is due to step down next year as well. BP is looking for one or two additional directors....
...Felicity Palmer, mezzo soprano. Indira Patel, for services to human rights. Helen Wallace, centennial professor, London School of Economics. Harriet Walter, actor....
...It’s a pleasure too, to see painters such as Samuel Palmer and John Crome shine brightly despite the exalted company....
...Continuing the tradition today are businessmen such as Julius Nehorai, who owns homes in London, Los Angeles and Portugal’s Algarve but who relocated to the island’s St Julians three years ago....
...John Julius Norwich is the author most recently of a memoir, ‘Trying to Please’ (Dovecote Press) and ‘The Middle Sea: a History of the Mediterranean’ (Chatto & Windus)...
...Ms Byron has called for a move to a single system....
...A famous rivalry opposed Michael Jaffé and Julius Held, both renowned scholars. If one pronounced a Rubens genuine, the other doubted it – and vice versa....
...John Julius Norwich conjures up Venice in 1077, the setting for the reconciliation of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III....
...The exquisite photos by Julius Shulman, which virtually defined west coast modernist chic, showed corrugated flat roofs set against an impossibly glamorous Californian landscape....
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